Note that the instructions on this page are for Honors Government. The work posted here is the start of Government (March 23), but you also need to finish your economics work. To get to the Economics blog, click the link over on the right hand column of this page that says, "Honors Economics."
Our specific office hours while we are out will be between 12:00 and 1:00, however, we will be checking our emails consistently throughout the day as well during time we are off.
Here are links to our emails:
Mr. Baumann:
scott.baumann@cobbk12.org
Mr. Merrill:
heath.merrill@cobbk12.org
If you have any questions, please ask them. Don't be afraid to attach screen shots of anything you need help with. If we get repeated questions about the same topic, we will post an answer for everyone about that topic on the blog.
HONORS GOVERNMENT
Though we had not yet actually started government, you can still get all of the government paperwork from this blog. Click the link on the right hand column of this page that says "Class Resources". Included on that page you can find the link for the Government Syllabus, the Unit Study Guides and a link to the online textbook.
Note that the calendar linked on that page is for last semester and is not up-to-date or accurate. We will update that calendar for this year once we know when we will be allowed to return to Hillgrove.
If we end up being out of school for more than two weeks, additional government work will be posted to this blog.
Unit 1 of government is about the basic ideas behind governments. It is also about the events and documents that led up to the US Constitution.
Here is what you should be working on during the week of March 23-27.
1) Vocabulary for Unit 1 of Government
2) An additional Out of the Box Assignment for Unit 1.
3) Important Documents Timeline Project
1) Vocabulary for Unit 1 of Government
Though normally you are allowed to choose both of your Out-Of-The-Box assignments. While we are out of school we are going to only allow you to choose one of them. For now, one of your two OOTB assignments must be defining the vocab. Here is a link to the Unit 1 Study Guide:
Unit 1 Study Guide
Just as it was in Econ, only the
BOLD words on the study guide are your vocab words. You can use your online textbook to define them or use any online resource you'd like. Unlike Econ most of the words are concepts or words you've heard of before. If you'd like us to confirm a definition, please ask. (Remember the link to the textbook is under the class resources link in the right hand column of this page.)
We will have our Unit 1 vocab quiz at some point after we are able to return to Hillgrove.
2) An additional Out of the Box Assignment for Unit 1.
You can choose any of the other OOTB assignment that you'd like. Here is a link to a copy of the OOTB instructions. They are exactly the same as they were for Econ.
Out of the Box Assignments
The only additional restriction is that you cannot choose to do a timeline that is essentially a copy of the timeline project below. If you want to do a timeline you must do it over something other than the events that led up to the Constitution. If you have a question about one of the assignments and need clarification, just ask.
3) Important Documents Timeline Project
On Friday, March 13 I handed out a copy of the instructions for the Important Documents Timeline project. If you weren't there or if you lost your copy here is a link to get another copy:
Important Documents Timeline Project
The idea of this project is to look at 13 events and documents that led up to (and include) the creation of the US Constitution. Under each event you are summarizing what was going on in at that place and time that made the document or event come about. Then you are also summarizing what the document or event actually did.
If you got one of the big pieces of paper at school, you can do the project on that, but you don't need too. If you don't have one of those papers, or even if you just want to, you can do the project on the front two blank pieces of regular sized paper laid side-by-side.
Remember that for the different documents in the timeline you will often have two different dates. One date for when it was written and one for when it was ratified. We want to use the date for when it was ratified, or became a law.
If you have any questions, as previously said, please email and ask them.
Hopefully we will be back at school after no more than two weeks. If that turns out not to be the case we will be posting additional work on this blog.
